Björk’s Surreal New Video Features an Extravagant Gucci Dress That Took 870 Hours to Make

Two years ago, Björk chronicled the demise of her marriage to artist Matthew Barney with the devastating, groundbreaking album Vulnicura. While the record was a smaller one than her previous—in that it turned inwards, excavating her own feelings about the breakup, rather than casting outwards to politics and the environment and even the galaxies—it was accompanied by a fittingly ambitious video project, a traveling virtual-reality exhibition that touched down in Houston, in Montreal, in her native Iceland, and elsewhere.